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exotica-digest         Monday, April 24 2000         Volume 02 : Number 697



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) sounds galactic
Re:  Re: (exotica) rekkid cleanin' stuff
Re: (exotica) sounds galactic
(exotica) Georges Montalba
(exotica) La Dolce Henke cd booklet needed
(exotica) SOUNDS GALACTIC
(exotica) [obit] Heinz
(exotica) The Friendly Persuasion Show  - Week of 04/24/00
Re: (exotica) The Friendly Persuasion Show  - Week of 04/24/00
Re: (exotica) The Friendly Persuasion Show  - Week of 04/24/00
Re: (exotica) The Friendly Persuasion Show  - Week of 04/24/00
(exotica) New on the Space Age Pop Page
Re: (exotica) What's with this "downbeat"/tiki turntable
Re: (exotica) fantasy in pipe organ & percussion
Re: (exotica) Kahiki Story
(exotica) fwd: epulse 6.16 [freakish] (excerpt)
Re: (exotica) Georges Montalba
Re: (exotica) sounds galactic
(exotica)"info exotica"/Widening the Horizon
Re: (exotica) sounds galactic
Re: (exotica) sounds galactic
(exotica) Hugo Montenegro's  "Others By Brothers"
Re:  (exotica) Hugo Montenegro's  "Others By Brothers"
Re:  (exotica) Hugo Montenegro's  "Others By Brothers"
(exotica) 2 New CD Adds
Re: (exotica) sounds galactic
Re: (exotica) fantasy in pipe organ & percussion
Re: (exotica) What's with this "downbeat"/tiki turntable
Re: (exotica)"info exotica"/Widening the Horizon
Re: (exotica)"info exotica"/Widening the Horizon/books
Re: (exotica)"info exotica"/Widening the Horizon

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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:58:42 GMT
From: "james brouwer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) sounds galactic

>>anyone own
>>this record? Any thoughts?

I believe the Sounds Galactic album is by John Keating. I have it. To my
taste, it is good but not great. It needs more whacked-out strangeness than
it has. I think the best track is the one they put on your sampler, so your
not missing that much.

To me, the first "Space Experience" album by Keating I think is much better
than "Sounds Galactic". It depends how moog-y you like your astro sounds to
sound like.

I'm sure someone on this list can make you a CDR of Keating's material. If
not, feel free to contact me. I'd be happy to make you a tape.

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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:17:12 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) rekkid cleanin' stuff

In a message dated 4/22/0 10:51:22 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Think of it this way, if you spend over $350 a year on records <snip>

Confession time: I probably spend that much in a month...JB


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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:36:40 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) sounds galactic

In a message dated 4/23/0 1:18:37 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I bought a phase 4 sampler this week called "The Spectacular World of phase 4
>>stereo" that has a track on it called Round Trip Mars by Sounds Galactic
from
>>an album called An Astromusical Odyssey (SP.44154). I've never heard of this
>>record before but it sounds like something I'd like to hear. Does anyone own
>>this record? Any thoughts?
>
>It's great:)  The last copy I sold was to the group AIR, though Ashley
Warren.
>They love it and were planning on covering Paul McCartney's
>"Across the Universe" for an upcoming LP

To elaborate, its Frank Comstockian but poppier and peppier. Its actually
John Keating. Great cover. Great sound FX .  Late 6T's pop hits covered with
a spacy angle. Got mine at Dusty Groove. It gets an "A"...JB


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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:49:16 -0400
From: Mark Renwick <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Georges Montalba

> >"Fantasy In Pipe Organ And Percussion"
> >Georges Montalba at the Mighty Wurlitzer
> >with Percussive Accompaniment
> >(Somerset SF-8400)
>

Montalba was really Bob Hunter, who played piano with
Freddie Martin's big band.  He made several organ recordings
which state that he played a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ in
Nice, France.  This is all fake publicity.  There never was
a Wurlitzer in Nice, France.

- --Mark Renwick
  Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:28:29 -0400
From: Michael Greenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) La Dolce Henke cd booklet needed

Hi folks - I recently found a used copy of the Scamp cd reissue of "La
Dolce Henke."  It had the tray card, but was missing the booklet.  If
someone on the list would be willing to color photocopy or scan the
booklet for me, I'd be happy to reimburse and otherwise thank him or
her.

The only Henke I had prior to this was "Woman in Space" b/w "Built For
Comfort" on the Cuca label (most of the other records I've seen on that
label have been Polka music!), so it was interesting to hear more of his
material.  The opening track on the cd is called "The Lively Ones."
This is the identical recording as "Built For Comfort" on my 45.

Now it can be told!

thanks,

Michael



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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:14:20 +0000
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) SOUNDS GALACTIC

>Sounds Galactic from
>an album called An Astromusical Odyssey (SP.44154). I've never heard of this
>record before but it sounds like something I'd like to hear. Does anyone own
>this record? Any thoughts?

>mike

Got it, and have to say it's a deadly bore except for a phenomenal version
of 'Spinning Wheel.'
Vive le difference!

Keith


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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:37:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Heinz

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,158145,00.html
Heinz Burt=20

Pop singer briefly propelled to stardom=20
Tuesday April 11, 2000=20

The career of the singer and bass player
Heinz Burt, who has died aged 57 after a
courageous battle against motor-neurone
disease, is a cautionary tale rooted in the
pre-Beatles 1960s. Heinz, as he was
billed, was a prot=E9g=E9 of the paranoid, and
finally homicidal, record producer Joe
Meek.=20

In 1962, the German-born 19-year-old,
plucked from bacon slicing in a
Southampton grocery, was credited as
one of Meek's studio band, the Tornados,
on Meek's five million-selling single,
Telstar. A year later, Heinz entered the
top 20 as a Meek-created solo artist with
Just Like Eddie, a tribute disc to the dead
American rock 'n' roller Eddie Cochran.=20

Meek was Britain's first independent pop
producer. He recorded in a tiny flat in the
Holloway Road, north London, and - in
between obsessions with the dead Buddy
Holly, death in general, seances and
graveyards - had made a clutch of British
hits, which displayed an occasionally
spectacular talent for electronic sound.=20

But it was a time when the salesmen of
British pop culture, of which Meek was
one of the most driven, were almost
entirely parasitic on the United States.
Thus did they attempt to clone
American-style teenage stars from wildly
unsuitable domestic material. Meek
dispatched a series of Elvises, Buddy
Hollys and their ilk into the world, and the
world remained largely indifferent.=20

Meek fell in love with Heinz, and
dismissed suggestions that the teenager,
who moved into the Holloway Road flat,
might be an indifferent singer or, indeed,
bassist. Inspired by the movie Village Of
The Damned, in which the world is
threatened by a brood of blond,
staring-eyed children, the producer
prevailed upon the youth to peroxide his
hair. The theory may have been an image
of the cold teuton, the reality was rather
bemused Hampshire.=20

Soon Heinz was separated from the
Tornados to pursue his Meek-directed
solo career. Since his voice had displayed
some inadequacies, the producer
doctored the tape on his debut single by
adding that of another singer. The record
flopped.=20

Then Heinz was unwisely sent on tour
with the American rock singers Gene
Vincent and Jerry Lee Lewis. Meek
envisaged Heinz's audience as teenage
girls, but he was confronted with sceptical
male youth and booed on and off stage. In
Birmingham, Heinz told Meek's biographer
John Repseh, the audience tried to attack
him. The band and singer were showered
with beans.=20

The next single, Just Like Eddie, was
Heinz's only hit. He played a summer
season at an end-of-the-pier show with the
ancient comedian Arthur Askey. But a
week after Just Like Eddie entered the top
20 came the Beatles' She Loves You. The
era in which herds of tin-pan-alley-created
pop singers could roam the lower reaches
of the charts was over, at least for the
time being.=20

Meek was convicted on a homosexual
soliciting charge; the records he produced
flopped; Heinz fell in love with a girl. He
made other records, but his brief moment
was past. In 1967, Meek shot his
landlady, and himself, at the Holloway
Road flat. In later years, after a
succession of manual jobs, Heinz
reappeared on stage at 1960s pop revival
shows. These included a 1992 Meek
tribute concert, where he concluded with
Teenager In Love. No cans were hurled.
The audience sang along.=20

Both his marriages ended in divorce. His
mother and his son survive him.=20

Heinz Burt, musician, born July 24 1942;
died April 7 2000=20




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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 21:16:01 -0700
From: "Mr. Fodder" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Friendly Persuasion Show  - Week of 04/24/00

The Friendly Persuasion Show  - Week of 04/24/00

Cool and Strange Music Magazine's weekly radio show on Antenna Internet
Radio.
http://www.antennaradio.com/punk/friendlypersuasion/index.htm

Get your RealAudio player ready and tune in anytime during this week to
hear:

1.  Kermit The Frog and Fozzie The Bear - Movin' Right Along
2.  Linda Fratianne - Another One Bites The Dust
3.  Metrophonics - Close Up
4.  Henry Mancini and His Orchesta with The Party Poops - The Party
5.  The Cyril Stapleton Orchestra - Department S
6.  Bombay The Hard Way - Fear of a Brown Planet
7.  Gershon Kingsley's First Moog Quartet - Eleanor Rigby
8.  DJ Pantshead - Untitled Track Numero Uno
9.  Ralph Carmichael - The New Hallelujah
10.  Gershon Kingsley & Hanna Aroni - Hashana, Haba'ah
11.  The Cackle Sisters - The Whipporil Song
12.  Ethel Mermen - There's No Business Like Show Business
13.  Linda Fratianne - Pac-Man Fever
14.  The Chipmunks - The Alvin Twist
15.  The Rockin' Bellmarx - Torture Rock
16.  The Duke of Uke - I Wanna Be Sedated
17.  Tipsy - Size 178-79-55-91 (Tipsy's 31-22-36 Mix)
18.  Tom Jones - Help Yourself
19.  Mrs. Miller - Granny Bopper
20.  Lee Majors - Sweet Jamie
21.  Bill Parsons - Rubber Dolly
22.  Forbidden Five - R.F.D. Rangoon
23.  Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - I Love To Singa
24.  Kermit The Frog - Rainbow Connection
25.  Julie London - Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast
26.  Aric Lavie - Am Israel Chay
27.  Barry White (blooper)
28.  Kaino - Wild River

Thanks for listening!
     Chow,
          Otis

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:05:36 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Friendly Persuasion Show  - Week of 04/24/00

In a message dated 4/24/00 12:21:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< The Friendly Persuasion Show  - Week of 04/24/00

 Cool and Strange Music Magazine's weekly radio show on Antenna Internet
 Radio.
 http://www.antennaradio.com/punk/friendlypersuasion/index.htm

 Get your RealAudio player ready and tune in anytime during this week to
 hear:

 1.  Kermit The Frog and Fozzie The Bear - Movin' Right Along >>

I had not heard the Movin' Right Along song in a long time, but still
remembered all the words.

That first Muppet movie was really an event.  And best line from the whole
movie:

Fozzie Bear while driving thru a forest:  "Ah, a bear in his natural habitat
- -- A Studebaker!"

Ha-Re-Wood!  Ha-Re-Wood!

TB


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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:11:43 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Friendly Persuasion Show  - Week of 04/24/00

In a message dated 4/24/00 12:21:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< 18.  Tom Jones - Help Yourself >>

and this one is really funny -- i had never heard that version before.  the
trumpet guy does some funny stuff and cracks Tom up.

http://www.antennaradio.com/punk/friendlypersuasion/index.htm

btw, it is Track 19 if you want to jump to it.  and that track feature is
great.

do it Tommy!

tb


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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:20:14 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Friendly Persuasion Show  - Week of 04/24/00

In a message dated 4/24/00 12:21:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< 27.  Barry White (blooper) >>

and you might as well tune in to Barry White cussing like a sailor.

tb


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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:00:56
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New on the Space Age Pop Page

Three additions to the Space Age Pop Page:

    --New bio on Plas Johnson (sax session superstar, played "Pink Panther
Theme")
    --New bio on Marty Manning (of "Twilight Zone" LP fame)
    --Updated bio on Jack "Mister Bongos" Burger, thanks to info from Jack
himself!

Enjoy:

http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/whatsnew.htm


Brad


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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 05:01:20 -0700
From: "Erik Hoel" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What's with this "downbeat"/tiki turntable

Larry <[e-mail]> wrote:

> << LP Cleaning crap - $50 (stylus cleaner, brush, record cleaner) >>
>
> Thanks for the post on high end equipment.  For anyone who collects used
> vinyl (that's all of us I believe) I would say throw out your Discwasher
> stuff and break down and by a Nitty Gritty or VIP professional record
> cleaning machine.

Bingo! Couldn't agree more.

> I bought a Nitty Gritty and it is amazing what a
> difference it makes.  I've bought records that were truly filthy and
cleaned
> them and they play perfectly now.  Also a perfect record sounds so much
> better after a spin on the Nitty Gritty.  No doubt one of the most
important
> parts of any exotica record collectors equipment.

This has been my experience as well. Easiest way in the world to make a
$0.25 LP sound like at $2 LP.

> Your friends list was all top but expensive stuff --- however, I feel that
> paying the kind of money he mentioned for speaker cables, and system
> interconnect cables is insane!!!!  The three dollar ones at radio shack
suck
> and should not be used, but there are plenty that work great for less than
> the price he mentioned.

Yep - I've still been challenging him to do a few blind tests to see if the
major pricey interconnect is worth it. The only thing thats been preventing
this is the strange connectors that are required for his Naim equipment.
Last Friday he plunked down $750 for a "really nice" powersupply (?!!). I
asked him a little more about it and he said that it will deliver quite
clean 28 volt DC current. I noted that my sprinkler system's electronic
control (a $30 item at the local hardware store) also has a 28 volt DC power
supply (standard little transformer thing you plug into the wall). My
contention is that he will be unable to tell the difference between the $750
power supply, and the one that was included with my sprinkler controller. I
kind of doubt he'll let me do the test - wonder why...?

Its pretty fun observing the various levels of insanity people have with
regard to music (present company _of course_ excepted...).

Erik
(&*%@!! - where did I leave those pills ...)



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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:06:38 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) fantasy in pipe organ & percussion

>In A Persian Market

I found two copies of this record on the same day (only bought one).  I
like this track in particular, because the strong chording near the
beginning puts me in mind of a heavy metal song  (C-C-C-Am-G-Am-G-Em-Em).

As to Montalba being La Vey, I will defer to Mr. Renwick, but further
refutation is offered by this page http://www.churchofsatan.org/aslv.html
which was compiled in part by his daughter (but she could be lyin' too, to
paraphrase B.B. King).

But back to the music, it's a great record, get it if you find it!

Brian Phillips




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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 00 10:57:36 -0700
From: "Michael D. Toth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kahiki Story

>My family and I finally made the 1.5 hours trek north to Columbus to visit
>the Kahiki before they tear it down.  And, from the rumors we heard in the
>bathroom, they are planning to tear it down for sure!
...

>Anyway, okay, it's not really a story, but while the restaurant was neat and
>the food decent, it's not hard to see how he's not making money serving
>mediocre food for high prices.

Every time I've gone there on a Friday/Saturday, there's been a 1+ hour
wait for a table. They seemed to be doing QUITE well.

As far as the price goes, you're definitely paying for the ambience, but
they've won all sorts of awards for their cuisine (I believe they've been
ranked as a 5-star Polynesian restaurant), so somebody with some
authority from somewhere seems to think it's above mediocre. And
actually, as far as finer dining goes, even in Ohio, I'd rank the Kahiki
on the low end of premium-priced dining.

>In any case, it was pretty expensive for medium style food.  I've had
>similar food at a decent Chinese restaurant for half the price.

Perhaps you didn't order whatever it was that gained them their
reputation too.

A man who's not going to take this Kahiki-leveling-travesty lying
down...unless it's in front of the bulldozers ;-) ,

Michael David Toth
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:20:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fwd: epulse 6.16 [freakish] (excerpt)

Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:36:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: epulse 6.16 [freakish]
CONTENT / April 21, 2000

Welcome back to epulse, the musically omnivorous weekly ezine
of Pulse! magazine.
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THE EPULSE8
A peek at the notebooks of your favorite editors.

3. EASY LISTENING OF THE WEEK (PART 1):

With all due respect to the Velvet Underground for carrying the decadent
art banner during the peace-and-love besotted '60s, after three decades
and change "Venus in Furs" and "Sister Ray" sound more and more like the
norm. Maybe that's why hipsters with stints in Luscious Jackson, the
Breeders and Spacemen 3 on their resumes, are playing at the kind of sunny
'60s pop that VU were violently reacting against -- in a way, sweet
melodies and lilting la-la-la choruses can be irresistible after hearing
too much tortured guitar feedback. DUSTY TRAILS' self-titled debut
(Atlantic, 5/9), spearheaded by ex-Breeder Josephine Wiggs and former
Luscious Jackson keyboardist Vivian Trimble with various guests, offers an
homage/update of the sort of lush "easy listening" groove-and-grace
aesthetic designed to provide swinging soundtracks for movies, seductions
or ski lodges, as perfected by such mood music godheads as Lalo Schifrin
and John Barry. 'Dusty Trails'' carefully crafted textures on tracks like
"Pearls on a String," "Spy in the Lounge" and "Regrets in a Border Town"
- -- gently strummed guitars, keyboard flavor and soaring vocals -- go down
easy, appropriately atmospheric background music if not always arresting
foreground music. Overall, 'Dusty Trails' provides a modicum of pleasure
but may be a bit too respectable, without a healthy dose of weirdness or
kitsch to spike the punch. (Peter Melton) ...

4. EASY LISTENING OF THE WEEK (PART 2):

... That's not a problem with the 'SONGS FOR THE JETSET 2000, VOLUME
THREE' (Jetset, out now) compilation, the third in a series of
easy-listening projects. Tapping into the same '60s soundtrack milieu but
from a British perspective, it lays on the period quirks pretty thick:
here are generous helpings of roller rink organs, trebly guitars and the
happiest singing this side of Up With People ... touches so authentically
dumb you find yourself thinking it's the real '60s thing. The lyrical
banality of tracks like "Day Out" and "My Friend Jack" ("eats sugar
lumps") and are part of the fun, as are the fake-band pseudonyms (Death by
Chocolate, Wallpaper, Milky) -- not to mention the graphic design, which
turns the whole package into a witty postmodern consumer item. In the
grand scheme of things, this is not music that will change your life. But
it may kick-start your next party. (Peter Melton)

7. NOVELTIES OF THE WEEK:

The history of novelty songs is presented in thorough and actually quite
engaging fashion by STEVE OTFINOSKI. His book is titled 'THE GOLDEN AGE OF
NOVELTY SONGS' (Billboard Books, out now), and as it covers 50 years,
right up to the present, we would seem to still be in the renaissance of
this confluence of melody and comedy. The book's strengths lie in the
author's research. In sharp contrast to the humorous hijinks of the music,
many of the performers' lives tip the scales toward tragedy. One of the
sad career truths of having a hit with a novelty song is that it's hard to
repeat or sustain that success. It's a scenario that wreaks havoc on human
frailties. The old "clown crying on the inside" scenario can be found
lodged within the often depressed souls of everyone from Allan Sherman to
Roger Miller. One might assume that anyone with an encyclopedic knowledge
of wacky songs would be short on socio-psychological insights. To
Otfinoski's credit, he treats this wide assortment of characters (Spike
Jones, Weird Al, Tiny Tim, etc.) with genuine compassion and a dignified
curiosity about their ticks and foibles. (David Greenberger)
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:27:44 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Georges Montalba

>> "Fantasy In Pipe Organ And Percussion"
>> Georges Montalba at the Mighty Wurlitzer
>> with Percussive Accompaniment
>> (Somerset SF-8400)
>
>Montalba was really Bob Hunter, who played piano with
>Freddie Martin's big band.  He made several organ recordings
>which state that he played a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ in
>Nice, France.  This is all fake publicity.  There never was
>a Wurlitzer in Nice, France.

Just for the record (groan!), this album makes no mention of recording
location, whether romantic or mundane. The only mention of location is,
"MANUFACTURED BY MILLER INTERNATIONAL CO., MEDIA, PENN., U.S.A."

(I mention that on behalf of friends living in Media)

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:25:00 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) sounds galactic

At 07:58 PM 4/23/00 GMT, james brouwer wrote:
>
>I believe the Sounds Galactic album is by John Keating. I have it. To my
>taste, it is good but not great. It needs more whacked-out strangeness than
>it has.
>
>To me, the first "Space Experience" album by Keating I think is much better
>than "Sounds Galactic".

"Sounds Galactic" and "Space Experience TWO" are both in my "archive to CD
and then sell" pile.   But I will probably keep Space Experience volume 1.
SG is tepid.  SE 2 has that ELP moog sound that I'm not interested in.
Stay tuned.  I don't even have a CD recorder yet but when I get one, tepid
classics will be auctioned off.

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:50:57 -0400
From: Peter Gingerich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica)"info exotica"/Widening the Horizon

Picked up the book "Widening the Horizon(Exoticism in Post-War Popular
Music)"  mentioned, oh, a few hundred e-mails back last friday. Its pretty
academic, no pictures, some written-out musical examples, so far the
chapters are pretty interesting:

Intro: The Cocktail Shift: Aligning Musical Exotica
1. Korla Pandit and Musical Indianism
2. Utopias of the Tropics: The Exotic Music of Les Baxter and Yma Sumac
3. Martin Denny and the Development of Musical Exotica
4. Tropical Cool: The Arthur Lyman Sound
5. Soy Sauce Music: Haruomi Hosono and Japanese Self-Orientalism
6. Musical Transport: Van Dyke Parks, Americana and the applied Orientalism
of 'Tokyo Rose'.
7. The Yanni Phenomenon

 Anyways it goes on the bookshelf along with 'Ultra Lounge', 'Elevator
Music', 'Exotica', 'Forever Lounge', 'MusicHound Guide to Lounge', "ISM
I&II'....am I missing anything there?

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:56:12 -0700
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) sounds galactic

Keating's "Sounds Galactic" is better than what most people
have stated, but that's just me:)

"2001", runs right into "Spinnin' Wheel" and both are awesome.
"Telstar" rules as well and there are a number of other titles that are great
(IMHO)

I have YET to hear anyone state that Keating does not use Moog's
on his recordings, but is much more Arp Synth oriented

So, if you like your sounds more "moogy", you won't get ANY of that
with Johnny Keating, 'cause there ain't none to be found anywhere

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:55:24 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) sounds galactic

In a message dated 4/24/0 2:52:24 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I have YET to hear anyone state that Keating does not use Moog's
>on his recordings, but is much more Arp Synth oriented

I have to agree with Jack here. I have always thought to myself "Where's The
Moog" when listening to the celebrated Mr. K. BTW,  that Arp reminds me of
Hugo Montenegro's ice-cold "Others By Brothers" from about '73...JB


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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:05:40 -0700
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro's  "Others By Brothers"

At 03:55 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hugo Montenegro's ice-cold "Others By Brothers"

This rekkid is AWESOME!
I've told RCA Spain to reissue it and they are
So there;^)
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:04:51 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Hugo Montenegro's  "Others By Brothers"

In a message dated 4/24/0 3:01:50 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Hugo Montenegro's ice-cold "Others By Brothers"

>This rekkid is AWESOME!

It is possible to be both cold and awesome at this address...And i LOVVVVVVE
(sp?) that freakin' rekkid toooooooo!!!!!!


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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:12:52 -0700
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Hugo Montenegro's  "Others By Brothers"

>It is possible to be both cold and awesome at this address...And i LOVVVVVVE
>(sp?) that freakin' rekkid toooooooo!!!!!!

I dunno if I think or have ever thought of it as "cold"
because it's not a "synth" record per se'
It has a horn section, great guitars, drums, percussion et al
and it is fun-kay muthuh shut yo' mouf

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:33:07 -0700
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 2 New CD Adds

2 New CD Adds;

Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo: "Moon Gas" ( Circa 1964) backed with Marty Manning's
electronic outer space exotica  masterpiece; "The Twilight Zone". (Circa 1960)

"Moon Gas" also features Vinnie Bell on Electronic Effects and Electric Guitar
Nick Tagg on various electronic keyboarded instruments, such as the Ondioline

"The Twilight Zone" is THE outer space exotica recording right up there at
the top in a totally different way, with Russ Garcia's "Fantastica"

LOTS of cool electronic performed on the Ondioline and Martenot (French
Moog's and Beyond)

Entire rundown of musicians and instruments listed on web site

Moon Gas Cover:  http://www.jackdiamond.com/moongas_cover2.jpg
Twilight Zone Cover: http://www.jackdiamond.com/twilightzone_cover.jpg

Listen to the MP3's about half way down this page;
http://www.jackdiamond.com/newarrive.html

Incredibly awesome remastering, German Import.
MP3 Sound Samples available at web site

Puts all subsequent releases to shame, sound fidelity wise

$17.50
________________________________________________________________

Dudley Moore's Original Soundtrack to "Bedazzled", backed with Hugo
Montenegros's Now Go Go Sound Original Soundtrack masterpiece rocker to
"Lady in Cement"

$17.50

"Bedazzled" is, well, Bedazzled. http://www.jackdiamond.com/bedazzled.JPG
1 of THE BEST Now Go Go Sound/Lounge Soundtracks ever released
Original LP's sell easily all the time for well over $100.00

"Lady in Cement" is, well,  http://www.jackdiamond.com/lady_cement.jpg
listen for yourself, about 1/3 of the way down on this page
http://www.jackdiamond.com/newarrive.html

Thanks again
Jack

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:46:05 GMT
From: "james brouwer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) sounds galactic

JB wrote:

>I have to agree with Jack here. I have always thought to myself "Where's
>The Moog" when listening to the celebrated Mr. K. BTW,

o.k., o.k. it's an arp, not a moog. my mistake. the POINT was that Sounds
Galactic is not, in my opinion, as good as the first "Space Experience" lp.

but I'm all for dissenting opinions....

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:05:57 -0400
From: "Mark Sironi" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) fantasy in pipe organ & percussion

>>"Fantasy In Pipe Organ And Percussion"
>>Georges Montalba at the Mighty Wurlitzer
>>with Percussive Accompaniment
>>(Somerset SF-8400)
>
>You DO know that this IS Anton La Vay, right ?

For those who don't know, Anton Szandor LaVey is the head of the satanic
church.  Every time I play this record, I get a giggle out of the thought of
the head of the satanic church performing this kind of cheese.

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:21:57 -0400
From: "Mark Sironi" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What's with this "downbeat"/tiki turntable

Larry wrote:

> I know they are great for top condition audiophile records.  How does that
> Thorens work with the got to have, but in slightly beat up condition
records?

I don't have any experience with the Thorens, but I own a VPI/Graham/Lyra
table/arm/cart combo whose price would probably make you faint. (I also have
3 Technics 1200's)  Sonically, the high end table is light years beyond the
1200's, but they are more revealing of flaws in the vinyl.  How much this
bothers you only you will be able to answer.  One thing it is much more
sensitive to, is groove wear.

> heard those really expensive audiophile one's can require a lot of
> maintenance and tinkering.  Do you think it's worth the HUGE investment (I
> should add that my finances are very limited due to some serious health

Only you can answer that question.  However, if it were me I would consider
how much you're going to use it, how much more enjoyment the better table
gives you, and how much it's going to hurt to shell out the $$$.  Then
figure out if the enjoyment to pain ratio is good enough to justify the
purchase.  I would also consider the rest of the system, putting a $1000
table into a system where everything else costs $200 probably isn't the best
of ideas.

One thing you can do (relatively) cheaply, pick up a decent cart, such as a
Grado Red ($110), assuming that you table isn't a p-mount or cheapo stylus
type.  Something else to do is get a good alignment jig and check your
cartridge's alignment.  Proper alignment of the stylus will minimize record
wear, improve tracking, and improve the sound substantially.  I'd do this
unless you already did it yourself and you know the alignment is dead-on,
you'll be amazed how far off this can be on some tables. (some of the
cheaper decks are inaccurate by design!)

- --
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:46:27 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica)"info exotica"/Widening the Horizon

"Anyways it goes on the bookshelf along with 'Ultra Lounge', 'Elevator
Music', 'Exotica', 'Forever Lounge', 'MusicHound Guide to Lounge', "ISM
I&II'....am I missing anything there?"

Ever pick up Exotiquarium...?  lots of great album covers to be found there.
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:50:59 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica)"info exotica"/Widening the Horizon/books

There is also the Soundtrack LP cover art book that has lots of great full
page photos of soundtrack covers, must have been taken from the original
plates or whatever, as the photos are all of covers in perfect condition.  I
love to look at that book once in a while and dream of finding some of those
LPs.
Larry


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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:41:03 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica)"info exotica"/Widening the Horizon

>"Anyways it goes on the bookshelf along with 'Ultra Lounge', 'Elevator
>Music', 'Exotica', 'Forever Lounge', 'MusicHound Guide to Lounge', "ISM
>I&II'....am I missing anything there?"
>
>Ever pick up Exotiquarium...?  lots of great album covers to be found there.

Isn't that the one that swiped text from some of our list-members'
websites? Not to mention the title from Johan. Whoops, I mentioned it.


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